Better Man · Pearl Jam

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 5:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57, 59 and 66-68, and 19 more places -- 39.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BETTER MAN · BAR 59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 56, 61, 62, 64, 65, 81 and 8 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 64-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 6 sections: 62 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 48 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-80.

PART B
BREAK
PART K
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGS2KHBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Better Man?

94 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Better Man hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Better Man?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 56, 61, 62, 64, 65, 81 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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